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rainfall are testing China's ability to cope with increasingly wild weather, as high temperatures challenge power grids and water security while floods ruin crops and threaten urban populations. Officials have warned repeatedly that China is especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to its large population and unevenly distributed water supplies, even as infrastructure is built and policies are rolled out to bolster the country's climate resilience.HOW WORRYING IS THE HEAT? The average number of high-temperature days stood at 4.1 in January-June, already higher than the full-year average of 2.2 days.

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While OpenAI’s ChatGPT was the first artificial intelligence (AI)-powered chatbot to captivate the world after its public release in November 2022, a variety of competitors have entered the marketplace since then.

Blockchain security tech firm BlockSec has launched a new toolkit that enables collaborative testing on private chains “forked from arbitrary (transaction) positions” and block numbers on the Ethereum mainnet.

Financial market firms T. Rowe Price Associates, WisdomTree, Wellington Management, and Cumberland have joined an Avalanche (AVAX) subnet to test the idea of blockchain-based foreign exchange, according to an announcement from the Avalanche team. The new subnet is called “Spruce,” and is part of Avalanche’s Evergreen Subnet ecosystem.

David Wighton is a columnist at Financial News

The rollout of The Bank of Russia’s central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot is being delayed for an indefinite period. Although all the participants, at least from the banking side, reassure of their readiness to begin the testing. 

LONDON — Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey on Tuesday vowed to be «very vigilant» amid ongoing volatility and suggested that the market is «testing out» banks to find weaknesses.

Microsoft is reportedly working on integrating a crypto and nonfungible token (NFT) friendly Web3 wallet into its Edge web browser.

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The international payment system Swift has reported positive results from a pilot test of transfers between different central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), saying they see “clear potential and value” in it.

According to a statement on Mar. 9, bank messaging platform Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications, or SWIFT, disclosed that the financial institution witnessed positive results related to its pilot test of linking different central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).

It’s no secret that over the last few years, many physical events have now digital iterations or have even been completely digitized into virtual reality. 

On Feb. 22, cryptocurrency exchange MEXC Global released its proof-of-reserves (PoR) snapshot after 45 days of testing. In a document seen by Cointelegraph, MEXC claimed its reserve ratios for Tether (USDT), USD Coin (USDC), Bitcoin (BTC), and Ethereum (ETH) were 120.70%, 240.18%, 116.50%, and 110.53%, respectively via the Merke Tree method. 

Music streaming platform Spotify expands its Web3 efforts by testing token-enabled playlists in several key markets. 

Zambia’s central bank and securities regulators are currently testing the technology to regulate cryptocurrencies, said a Zambian government minister.

According to an 18 February tweet by Kamino Finance, Solana’s [SOL] decentralized exchange (DEX) activity was better than other chains in 2023 if a particular metric was put into consideration.

The third version of crypto lending app Aave has now been deployed to Ethereum for the first time, according to a Jan. 27 tweet thread from the Aave team. “Aave V3” was originally released in March 2022, and it was deployed on multiple Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM)-compatible blockchains shortly afterward. Until now, Ethereum users only had access to the app's older “V2” version.

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There's nothing in crypto like the New York Stock Exchange, but if the industry has anything close, Coinbase Global and Binance fill that role.

The crypto service is being rolled out across 11 European countries excluding the UK, as the fintech is still awaiting authorisation to offer crypto services there. “I think that offering crypto has become a necessity. Crypto, especially the leading coins, are quite mainstream as assets now.” “This is a transition phase, as we want to test it in a small scale way across Europe. Our current mission is to offer a large range of assets. US stocks were an easy starting point for us.. We want to enlarge the universe in terms of assets, so with crypto on one side and ETFs on the other, people can create a very diversified portfolio through Shares." He expects that some users will view crypto as a risky asset, allocating the majority of their funds toward traditional trades, leaving a smaller proportion to speculate on the crypto side.